CVE-2023-52631

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15-5.15.149 - NULL Pointer Dereference in NTFS3 Attribute List Loading

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix an NULL dereference bug The issue here is when this is called from ntfs_load_attr_list(). The "size" comes from le32_to_cpu(attr->res.data_size) so it can't overflow on a 64bit systems but on 32bit systems the "+ 1023" can overflow and the result is zero. This means that the kmalloc will succeed by returning the ZERO_SIZE_PTR and then the memcpy() will crash with an Oops on the next line.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (14)
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.149 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.78 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.17 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.7.5 - 6.7.*
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - 686820fe141ea0220fc6fdfc7e5694f915cf64b2
Linux/Linux be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - ae4acad41b0f93f1c26cc0fc9135bb79d8282d0b
Linux/Linux be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - b2dd7b953c25ffd5912dda17e980e7168bebcf6c
... and 4 more
Published Apr 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026